The twilight language explores hidden meanings and synchromystic connections via onomatology (study of names) and toponymy (study of place names). This blog further investigates "name games" and "number coincidences" found in news and history. Examinations are also found in my book The Copycat Effect (NY: Simon and Schuster, 2004).

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Big Tex Burns

I was in Dallas, Texas, on October 19, 2012, in transit to a conference in Jefferson. By coincidence, Big Tex caught on fire. I'm not able to pen too much from the road.

Allow me to share what Enki writes:

This morning in Dallas, at the State Fair of Texas, the iconic "Big Tex" burned up.When I saw the photos of the fire, I was reminded of the ritual sacrifice in the 1973 film The Wicker Man. Interestingly, this year, the Scottish band Texas headlined at Scotland's Wickerman Festival, where each year a burning of a wicker man concludes festivities. The festival kicked off this summer on July 20, the day James Holmes shot up the theater in Aurora. (Another Holmes, Emily Holmes, appeared in the crappy 2006 remake of The Wicker Man.) Holmes means "from the river island." The setting of The Wicker Man is on an island, and the original film's production was based at Newton Stewart on the River Cree.Holmes, fairs, and death also intersect in the story of one of America's first known serial killers, Dr. Henry Howard Holmes. This Holmes designed and built a deathtrap hotel, and he lured victims to his hotel from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.Maury Terry's belief, as outlined in his book The Ultimate Evil, that David Berkowitz was associated with a cult and that the Son of Sam murders were ritual sacrifices, also comes to mind. In the famous letter sent to Daily News columnist Jimmy Breslin, the .44 Caliber Killer references "Wicked King Wicker."

11 comments:

Ann
said...

Is it known how 'Big Tex' caught on fire? Looking at the pictures at the link Big Tex really does look eerily like the Wicker Man. Makes me wonder if hidden forces didn't intentionally set fire to it, perhaps something to do with the upcoming presidential election? Interesting too is that there's the Holmes-Aurora-Scottish group 'Texas'.

Reading about the Wicker Man movie, apparently it's a trilogy: In 2011, a spiritual sequel entitled The Wicker Tree and the next film, The Wrath of the Gods. There are still plenty of people that believe in Paganism, for instance I imagine the Left Hand Path in mystical circles, which often has to do with the aspects of Chaos. So there could be real hidden message in these trilogys...maybe?

I always liked anything that Christopher Lee appeared in, like all the Hammer horror films especially. I feel his version of the Wicker Man was more authentic to the one Nicholas Cage was in.

Hope you had a good time at the conference. Must have been interesting, I bet.

In the book The Ultimate Evil that I mentioned in the post, Maury Terry makes a case for both the Son of Sam murders and the Manson family slayings being occult hits ordered by the same cult. There is a significant name game sync here, also. Watson ties back to Holmes through Arthur Conan Doyle's stories about the brilliant sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson. Anthony Shaffer, who wrote The Wicker Man, also wrote Sleuth. Round and round it goes...

The name game + news has me thinking of Texe Marrs, as ole' Curiosity rumbles round picking up pyramidical rock. The rock is classified as a Mugearite, named after rocks found in Mugeary, isle of Skye.

I keep reading that the fire started in his right foot - In the Austin American Statesman in the Oct. 20th, Saturday edition, in the Metro & State section - they havre a photo of Big Tex all wrapped up in a cloth wheeling him away from the state fair and I quote: "The covered remains of Big Tex are rolled away Friday ...."

It sounds like a funeral and the photo looks like a dead giant person would look when the medics cover their bodies and roll them away from the scene. I think the photo and the words are intentional.It's a message to the initiates no doubt. "Right" being buried - who knows, Bill Bragg, is the voice of Big Tex, great name for someone from the big ol state of Texas, where everything is bigger, or was.

Small quibble from me but the Wicker Man remake wasn't all bad. It had some interesting elements and sequences, despite the unintentionally comedic bits. It definitely nailed the final sacrifice scene better than the original, especially in its intensity.

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Investigator of human and animal mysteries since 1960. Swamp Thing character "Coleman Wadsworth" in #4:7 and more in #4:8, is a tribute.
Author of over 35 books, including The Unidentified (1975), Mysterious America (1983/2007), Suicide Clusters (1987), Cryptozoology A to Z (1999), Bigfoot! (2003), The Copycat Effect (2004), and field guides.
Educated in anthropology-zoology at SIU-Carbondale, and psychiatric social work at Simmons College School of Social Work. Began doctoral work in anthropology (Brandeis University) and family violence (UNH). Taught at NE universities (1980 to 2003), while concurrently a senior researcher at the Muskie School (1983 to 1996), before retiring to write, lecture, consult, & open museum. Popular documentary course was taught for 23 semesters; appeared on C2C, The Larry King Show, MonsterQuest, Lost Tapes, In Search Of, and other tv programs.
Loren Coleman is a dedicated father (Caleb, Malcolm, Des), cryptozoologist, media consultant, and baseball fan.